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The federal government remains open to criminalizing a pattern of behaviour known as coercive control, Canada’s justice minister says in a new letter, calling gender-based violence an “epidemic” that must be stopped.to Ontario’s chief coroner outlined the Liberal government’s response to a series of recommendations that came from an inquest into the 2015 slayings of three women in the rural Renfrew County area, about 180 kilometres west of Ottawa.
One called on Ottawa to create a new offence in the Criminal Code that targets coercive control, which experts on intimate partner violence say is the controlling behaviour that an abuser exerts over someone. Virani pointed to the government’s existing commitment to monitor how making coercive control a criminal offence is working in other jurisdictions, such as Scotland.
And many high-profile cases, including homicides and murder-suicides, have highlighted that many people sensed victims were in danger before they were killed.
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